Solutions Ltd., the developer of perceived quality simulation solutions, has introduced a range of consulting and engineering services designed to help manufacturers improve perceived quality in new products.

Supporting all areas of manufacturing, from consumer electronic devices and domestic electrical appliances to automotive vehicles and aircraft, the new services draw on Icona Solutions’ years of experience in implementing perceived quality processes, enabling companies to review their designs at an early stage to optimise new products and avoid costly re-work later in the product development process.

Offered without the need for customers to purchase licenses of Icona Solutions, the new services include the provision of experts to work alongside a manufacturer’s own team to help improve the way in which perceived quality targets and information flows across the entire product development process are managed. They also include the provision of suitably-qualified engineers to work with a customer, either on-site or off-site using a secure data transfer system, for as long as is required at any stage in the product development process, from early design concept through to manufacture and production, to ensure new products meet required perceived quality standards.

Tim Illingworth, chief executive, Icona Solutions, said “The challenge for manufacturers is to increase the perceived quality of their products without negatively impacting manufacturing costs, while continuing to shorten the design-to-manufacturing timescale. Our new services offering, together with our diagnostic tools, enables manufacturers to gain early insight into the impact of manufacturing variation on perceived quality at all stages of the product development process.
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